BFFW and Final Girls Berlin co-present Feminist Horror Shorts

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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival and Berlin Feminist Film Week co-present: Feminist Horror Shorts

Brace yourselves for a night of horror made by women and non-binary filmmakers. We’ll be screening a “best-of” selection of shorts from the February 2019 edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. FGBFF is committed to transgressive representations of gender, feminist subversions of horror tropes, and providing a platform for marginalized voices in horror.

Festival co-director Sara Neidorf will be present to introduce the program and discuss the films afterwards.

Doors: 19:00
Films: 20:00
Entry: 7 Euro
Location: LUDWIG, Anzengruberstr. 3, near U7 Rathaus Neukölln

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Blood Runs Down (17:28)
Directed by Zandashé Brown, US, 2018
When a woman undergoes a frightening transition, her vigilant five year old daughter must decide between saving her or protecting herself in this haunting account of inheritance, daughterhood, and demons.

Panic Attack (3:07)
Directed by Eileen O’Meara, US, 2018
Do you ever wonder “did I leave the coffee on?” or “am I pregnant with a devil-baby?” This 3-minute short explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.

Nose Nose Nose EYES (13:50)
Directed by Jiwon Moon, South Korea, 2018
A ten year old girl witnesses her mother tending to her ill father, but she soon realizes that caretaking isn’t supposed to look like this.

Instinct (18:20)
Directed by Maria Alice Arida, US, 2017, German Premiere
A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. Will Isabelle allow herself to let Camila in without giving in to her true nature?

Entropia (14:54)
Directed by Marinah Janello, US, 2018, German Premiere
Loneliness and an obsession with vanity have pushed one woman to take unconventional measures to find happiness. Symbols of birth, death and rebirth grace the film and asks the audience to ponder the question: How far would you go to turn back time?

Sell Your Body (11:09)
Directed by Jaannelle Yee, US, 2017
A med school dropout in crippling student debt swipes a wild couple on a dating app to make some fast cash.

Mouse (11:12)
Directed by Celine Held & Logan George, US, 2017
Fueled by coke, a desperate couple attempts to capitalize on an unlikely opportunity.

Hair Wolf (12:11)
Directed by Mariama Diallo, US, 2018
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Total: 102 mins

– All films will either be in English or screened with English subtitles.
– The screening room is non-smoking. The bar will be open before, during, and after the screening.